[9fans] My view of Plan 9 and it's future

[Will Rose cwr@crash.cts.com]

Bengt Kleberg <bengt@softwell.se> wrote:
:> > Will Rose wrote:
:> > OTOH, I really, really wish the PC version used the standard partition
:> > table in the conventional way...

:> From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
:> Jim indicated that that would be the case for the next release.

: That is unfortunate. I really appreciated that Plan9 would 'hide' at the end of the disk,
: no matter what OS that had formatted/labeled the disk in question.
: If the new release uses PC standard partition table
: it should mean that I can no longer move a disk from x86 Plan9
: to Sparc Plan9. Or am I wrong?

It can stay in the same place on the disk; just update the (PC-style)
partition table accordingly, so other (PC) OSes know its there.  OSes
that don't use the table won't be affected.


Will
cwr@cts.com